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[Da Kine 17]

You are misinformed, Fauci funded the lab through the NIH.

“Political pressure almost certainly played a part in the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) sudden termination of a grant it had awarded to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China for joint research on coronaviruses in bats and their potential to jump into humans. The project, which was cancelled in late April, had come under public attack from President Trump and some Republican lawmakers in the preceding weeks.”

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/us-funder-ends-coronavirus-research-with-wuhan-lab-amid-political-pressure/4011660.article

“The EcoHealth Alliance has received more than $3.7 million since 2015 for its research on the risks of coronavirus spread through bats and the potential for spillover into humans. The effort has produced at least 20 scientific papers, including several published in prominent journals such as Nature.
As recently as April 2018, the NIH issued a press release promoting a study linked to the research project, whose authors included a scientist at the Wuhan lab.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/27/trump-cuts-research-bat-human-virus-china-213076